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Go was started in 2007 and opened in 2009 (2 years closed). Rust was started in 2006, Mozilla became involved in 2009 and it was opened in 2012 (6-3 years close

• dbaupp 12y ago
  2012 was just the first 0.1 release, it was public before that. Also, Rust is doing more interesting/experimental things than Go with significantly more iteration and change.
  • kibwen 12y ago
    Can confirm, I've been involved in Rust since 2011 and Mozilla at large began talking about Rust (publicly, though without great fanfare) in 2010. Furthermore, saying that Rust has been worked on "since 2006" is misleading. From then until 2009 it was just the work of one man idly tinkering in his free time, hardly a serious project.
• pcwalton 12y ago
  Rust wasn't really "started" in 2006; it was just a sketch on paper at that point. 2009 is really when it started.